Example sentences of "[that] this [be] just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room was pleasant and business-like , but small , with a twenty-watt reading light — when will Europeans learn that this is just not good enough ? — a small TV , a clock radio , a good bath with a shower . |
| 2 | Regarding the social differentiation between the sexes , this conceptual schematization can result ( and I stress that this is just one possibility , and one which admirably serves the needs of patriarchy ) in women being perceived as closer to nature in consequence of the biological facts of childbirth and menstruation ( or rather , a particular cultural interpretation thereof ) , whilst men , who are deemed to lack such a cycle of visible creativity ( and who have other aspects of their own equally natural physiology denied ) , are placed within the realm of culture , manipulating their own social and political existence , and transcending the passive forces of nature . |
| 3 | It may be said that this is just one of the cases where it is impossible to be neutral . |
| 4 | Although my brief summary of his main thesis may arouse fears that this is just another antiscientific diatribe , and though some of the ideas in it , notably his panpsychism , are hard to swallow , and though parts are maddeningly imprecise , persistence pays dividends . |
| 5 | British Rail says that this is just one of the options being considered . |
| 6 | If ever we wake up in the morning and feel that this is just ‘ another day to get through ’ , then our life is painfully stuck — and it is fear and limiting beliefs which are keeping us stuck . |
| 7 | I am sure that I speak for all district society presidents when I say that this is just not true . |
| 8 | Each turn along the coast path reveals a beautiful sandy cove , or jagged rocks giving lie to the notion that this is just a pretty landscape . |
| 9 | NeXT , as ever , told Reuters that this is just one of a number of licensing deals it is discussing . |
| 10 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 11 | Eventually enough of these shapes were collected and studied for it to be undeniable that this is just what they must be . |
| 12 | But in fact no such argument is or could be made , for it is indisputable and undisputed that this is just what Parliament set out to do , and has effectively done . |
| 13 | They stress , however , that this is just an overall industry average and that , as market share accounts for only about 14 per cent of the dispersion of ROI among businesses , other factors need to be considered . |
| 14 | At a total cost to local Charge payers of around twenty thousand , some people may think such civic junketing has been terribly excessive but the truth is , Lord Mayor , that this is just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 15 | Chairman , I believe that this is just the sort of motion that can only bring local government into disrepute It 's an abuse of power the council holds lands in the county farms estate for purposes set out in the nineteen sixty agriculture act . |
| 16 | Goodey has reported and concluded , that as long as they get their hundred per cent minimum requirement they can still go on their contribution holidays , and many and my scheme members feel that this is just a it 's a freebie as far as they 're concerned and scheme members do n't do not benefit from the surplus and they would like to have seen or preferred to have seen |
| 17 | You could find that this is just the beginning and that your plans are n't quite as cut and dried as they appear . ’ |
| 18 | I think you know and I know that this is just not true ! |
| 19 | So , when to her great surprise she is asked to the Spring Ball , by one of the most desirable men in this school , she feels that this is just to be another of the many jokes played on Carrie . |
| 20 | Earlier that morning Wexford had quoted Justice Shallow and now , as he contemplated Jolyon Vigo 's house , he thought that this was just the sort of place Shallow might have lived in . |
| 21 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 22 | The children all looked as if they did n't have a care in the world , that this was just another ordinary day , and what was taking place within the hall some sort of social occasion . |
| 23 | However , Patrick Eggle assured me that this was just a spooky coincidence , and even that some players had remarked upon a tendency for the bottom string to slip off the bridge , so he was going to move it anyway . |
| 24 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 25 | ‘ In case you were thinking , ’ he concluded , ‘ that this was just a quarrel among blacks , a spot of faction-fighting . |
| 26 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 27 | Diane told herself that this was just a kind of paranoia on her part , an over-apprehension that came from reading too many doctor articles in women 's magazines , but it did n't make her any less uneasy . |
| 28 | There in the King 's sitting room the clerk noted ‘ a harpsichord by Handell in a walnut tree case ’ Clearly there are two scribal errors here the spelling of the composer 's name and the omission of a verb : these make it possible to argue ( if a little perversely ) that this was just another of those many instruments reputed to have been played by Handel . |
| 29 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |
| 30 | Having obliged , Tony told his Branch Manager that this was just another satisfied customer , and one with a clean back . |